


Two sequels that were also written and directed by Six- Full Sequence and Final Sequence-were released in 20, respectively. Despite a mixed critical reception, the film won several accolades at international film festivals.

It received a limited theatrical release in the United States on 30 April 2010. The film held its premiere at the London FrightFest Film Festival on 30 August 2009. When approaching investors to fund the project, Six did not mention the premise of the film for fear of putting off potential backers financiers did not discover the full nature of the film until completion. Other sources of inspiration were Nazi medical experiments performed during World War II, such as those performed by Josef Mengele at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie, and Akihiro Kitamura as Heiter's victims.Īccording to Six, the concept arose from a joke he had made with friends about punishing a child molester by stitching his mouth to the anus of a "fat truck driver". It stars Dieter Laser as Josef Heiter, the creator of the centipede and Ashley C. The film concerns a deranged German surgeon who kidnaps three tourists and conjoins them surgically, mouth to anus, forming the eponymous "human centipede". The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a 2009 Dutch independent body horror film written, directed and co-produced by Tom Six.
